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The Hope Index: Rating the chances Chicago’s pro teams can contend for a title

By Orrin Schwarz
May 29, 2026 9:09 pm - Some years it seems like a Chicago will never again win a major-league pro championship. This isn’t one of those years. We rate the local heroes’ chances and let you know where we see hope for athletic glory.
Happ homers again, but Cardinals survive with 6-5 win over the Cubs

By Warren Mayes
May 29, 2026 9:08 pm - Nelson Velázquez hit a three-run homer and Iván Herrera and Thomas Saggese added solo shots, powering the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-5 win over the Chicago Cubs in the first meeting of the season between the teams Friday night.
Dansby Swanson’s fix for May slump is to ‘create a better way for me to actually see the ball’

By Sahadev Sharma
May 29, 2026 10:39 am - PITTSBURGH — As Dansby Swanson tried to explain what he was working on, he understood it almost sounded ridiculous. After working to lean into his athleticism in the offs...
Happ homers again and Skenes loses his 3rd straight start as the Cubs sink the Pirates 7-2

By JOHN PERROTTO
May 28, 2026 9:09 pm - Ian Happ homered for the second consecutive game and the Chicago Cubs handed Paul Skenes his third straight loss with a 7-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday.
MLB owners have proposed a salary cap for the first time since baseball’s 1994-95 strike

By RONALD BLUM
May 28, 2026 2:02 pm - Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players’ association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting t...
The Cubs’ hitters made this mess. Now it’s their turn to clean it up

By Jon Greenberg
May 28, 2026 11:53 am - How bad were things getting with the Chicago Cubs? We were cursing about curses again. And it’s only May. Was it the Chicago White Sox fan who got into an, uh, war of wor...
Cubs snap 10-game losing streak as Ian Happ has 3-run homer, 5 RBI in 10-4 win over Pirates

By JOHN PERROTTO
May 27, 2026 9:15 pm - Ian Happ hit a tiebreaking three-run home run and drove in five runs on Wednesday night while playing in his hometown as the Chicago Cubs ended their 10-game losing streak with a 10-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Esmerlyn Valdez's homer caps five-run first, Pirates send skidding Cubs to 10th straight loss 12-1

By JOHN PERROTTO
May 26, 2026 9:59 pm - PITTSBURGH — Esmerlyn Valdez hit a two-run home run to cap a five-run first inning on Tuesday night and the Pittsburgh Pirates routed the skidding Cubs 12-1 to extend Chi...
Scripted comedy may be only explanation for Cubs’ sudden slump

By Mike McGraw
May 25, 2026 6:14 pm - The Cubs experienced another game without many hits and lost at Pittsburgh 2-1 on Sunday. Michael Busch’s solo home run was their only scoring.
Henry Davis slugs late go-ahead homer as Pirates send Cubs to a 9th straight loss in 2-1 victory

By WILL GRAVES
May 25, 2026 4:11 pm - PITTSBURGH — Henry Davis hit a go-ahead solo home run in the seventh inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates sent the Cubs to their ninth straight loss with a 2-1 victory on M...

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